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and enabled him to rotain it. His elsation as President in 1920 was a triumph, with the | overwhelming backing of a
Fast
DAY BY DAY.
AN HONEST MAN MAY BE CARVED OUT OF ANY WILLOW
majority of the electorate carTY STUMP, BUT TO MAKE A ROGUE
ing him through all opposition. You so that even a foolish calumny Schiller, as to his being of Negro extrac» tion failed to affect his position in a land where the racial line
MUST HAVE BRAINS.
The name of Mr. Cyril Herbert Burton has been added to the Dental Register.
gainst the former slaves and their descendant's is so rigidly. drawn. When he assumed office, It is notified that the name of the world, especially the other the Chinese Seamen's Union'
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pursuance of directions
Bulls and
Inners
From the Office. Butts.
There is no truth in the story If Ngai Bong ping resigns much that the Reverend J. Kirk Macon- oftener, he will find it difficult to achie has made arrangements to determine whether he is an officer have his weekly sermon wireless- or a gentleman.
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Our sooop merchant says he thinks Hoarst is in the barbour
s Imitation is of on only another on a private yacht. We don't Deme for rubbish.
care & ourse if be's here on a private jag.
China may have her bandite, but
But business is business. Any- thing Hearst has to say can go in the Telegraph at entertainment.
The upset prices at some of our advertisement rates. land sales are all that.
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What we can't make out in jet A bypocrite is a Kowloon man where anxiety concerning yelling loudly for a
harbour cemetery in the midst of Kowloon.
commences and private iLlorest enda.
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The percentage of sickness among our children has largely When you come across's Shang... decreased since the schools abut hai man you mustn't assume from down. The police may be after him, or his look that he's here on business.
section of the English-speaking Bank, Limited, has been struck thank gooinean we still have a
off the Register.
** | couple of stock-exchanges. / world, was prepared to judge him. without bias, and in a few months his stealing worth had become We regret to hear that Mr. H. apparent. Naturally, the late-A. Jones, the well-known man- ager of Messrs. Moutrie and Co., President had his political foests lying ill in the French Hospital. both those" in America whose party feeling operated "to mould their opposition and those outside given by His Majesty the King, that what you don't eat at one the country who, in disagreement Mr. Eldon Potter, has been ap-meal, 'you have for your next." with the policy of the United pointed one of His Majesty's Stater, held him to be the re- Counsel for Hongkong. sponsible figuro. Towards thej British Empire he had the most;
His Excellency the Governor sincero feelings of friendship, and has appointed Mr. F. R J. Adams one of the last speeches be made to be a Member of the Authorized before his fatal illness was the absence on leave of Mr. A. C. Architects' Committee during the very statesmanlike one on Anglo-Little. American amity and The absurdity of talk about the an•
The only time the mail is more A Chinese was sont to the Gov- "If we knew exactly how mad a deadly than the formale is when nexation of Canada. The late ernment Civil Hospital yesterday wet hen was, it would accurately we get a bill by post. President Harding was the sixth with two bullet wounds in one describe the feelings of a certain in his office who did not eurvive | leg, said to have been inflicted thin beach beauty who accidental- MARRIAGE.
the term of appointment. Of the. Over the border by two man who ly got into the water.
are now in police custody, KATZ-SHPUNT-On July other five, two died after a abort 29, at Synagogue Ohel Rachel, administration and three were Shanghal, by Rabbi, W. Hirsch, William Katz to Nadia Shpunt.
assassinated. In looking back through the years, we find that among the Presidents of the United States of America' there were men who were mere figure. hends, who wore corrupt, and whose policy was disastrous if
you.
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--DEATH.
CARTER-On July 26, at Vancouver, B. C., Robert James Carter, in his 60th year, the be- loved husband of M. E. Carter.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
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Have you ever seen a white.. elephant? They've got another down in Bangkok. Or you can Many a Kowloon man on ty drive out to Shekko and save the phoon days just ealves his con- difference. scienca by going to the Ferry.
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His Excellency the Governor has appointed provisionally and subject to His Majesty's pleasure, Mr. H. W. Bird to be an Un-plains of the danger of a ship's price of fire wood.
A seafaring correspondent com- great slump is expected in the official Member of the Legislative anchor becoming entangled with Council, vice Mr. A. G. Stephen, the cable which passes Stonecut During four near typhoon days resigned.
ters and the mainland, owing to last week-end the rainfall" was Iack of leading lights." This 8.80 inches, From the look of is too much. Unofficial Members our bedroom coiling, we should have to get a rest sometimes. imagine Astronomer Claxtoo has got the decimal point in the wrong place.
not, absolutely colourless, whilst Eight lots of Crown land situated at Stubbs Road are të be Mr. A. C. Rozario wishes to there were others whose work sold at the P.W.D. on the 20th. thank all those who kindly sent will ever stand as a model for instant. They vary in size from expressiona of sympathy in his
administratore, whose 30,000 square feet (upset price recent bereavement, and also all future who forwarded wreaths and at-hands were clean, heads clear, $6,500) to 11,500 square feet (upset
price, $2,800). and who kept the courage of their 'convictions undaunted; and amongst these latter will always be ranged the name of Warren G. Harding.
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Those Coolies.
A small boy fell off a tramcar at Queen's Road Central at about nine o'clock this morning. He appears not to have been serioue ly injured but was. dazed.
The application of a little cold water soon brought him round.
somewhat
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The P. and T. Times states that: From the Missions to Seamen "One of the most extraordinary Report it would appear that some. incidents in connexion with local of the bums on the beach are racing accurred at the Jockey merely barnacles with a penchant Club's Hongkong Telegraph of for boer. July 9." We" hasten. to assure our readers that we have not been bought over by the Turf-we are still above it.
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☺ Wo fear a recrudescence of Ford car stories.
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Which reminds us of the Ford which lay for two days at the bot- tom of the harbour but on being hauled out was none.the worse for the experience. You can't even drown 'em!
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Aparently the commandeering for military work has been ro-
We are unable to confirm the sumed in Canton. Yesterday His Excellency the Governor rumour that a contemporary is news to this effect reached us has appointed provisionally and about to start a weekly feature from two sources, one of these subject to His Majesty's pleasure, entitled "Magpies and Outers." At a time when the friendship being the correspondent who Mr. A. R. Lowa to he an Un. That however, would just be about between America and Britain has writes in this issue under the official Members of the Logiela- their mark. been thoroughly tested and fully nom de plume" of "American tive Council during the absence
Citizon." The other day, in the from the Colony of the Hon. Mr.. Moutria bas been recommend- established, the sorrow of the
course of his reply to qur queries. H. W. Bird.
ed German boer for bad business. people of the United States at Mr. Eugene Chen stated that this
Seems to us to be a case of There's nothing like looking the death of their President can impressment of coolies had consed
"physician heal thyself." & fow ahead. Haberdashers should keep be keenly appreciated by the on the successful termination of The Admiral Oriental Line is battles might help up the mark a bit, a low stock of stiff collars against
the North River campaign. If in receipt of telegraphic advice to
the day when our friends will see British
throughout the current reports are correct, fresh the effect that the silk shipped Brewer & Co. advertise "Wise us off Home by airship. Empire. The death of Mr. Hard-military necessities have caused per s.s. President Grant, which Parenthood (Birth Control.)" ing is certainly a loss to America, the scheme to be re-introduced. sailed from this port on July 9 at Trouble is here too many become Couldn't our Electric Company There is, Mr. Eugene Chen says, 10 a.m., arrived in New York on wice before they become parents, fix up some of that high volt for he had proved himself a man nothing new in the idea of the im August 1 at 2 a.m. Total time
stuff in handy sizes so that we of insight, of high principles, and pressment of people when the taken in transit, 22 calendar days MacWhirter, he says it takes can hand out some of it to our possessed of other sterling qual-State is in danger, but, all 'the 16 hours."
(two to start a fight or get married, shroff's? tiea.
He embodied all those same, wo naturally expect in such
which often amounts to the same circumstances to see these draft- aseets which one expects to finding schemes carried out in due and
Tenders are being invited for thing in the long run. in one who has led a real man's proper order. The correspondent construction of a wood refuse
The small boy's idea of heaven life-who has fought his way up mentioned above makes a good lighter for, the Sanitary Depart to the top of the ladder against Point when he draws attention to ment. Capacity of hold and is a place where the teachers
the unwarranted interference with hatchway not less than 5,500 have a permanent holiday, he handicaps of comparatively the liberty of the subject caused cubic feet. Accommodation for
"0 These round table conferences humble and uninfluential origin. by seizing innocent pedestriana 14 men to be provided: The ten- It is the proud boast of United as they walk through the streets. der to include full equipment fit are handy. The chairman can Morning Poet. We know som
That procedure cannot be justified and ready for use, and to state a always prove an alibi. States citizenship that no man on any grounds of expediency; time in which the vessel will be who ie fitted for office can be it certainly cannot be defended|completed. barred merely because of lowly from the moral standpoint. A birth: be is accepted for what he statement in the letter makes us
curious as to what happens to The third Easma bosch open lie and not what he was. Possibly these commandeered coolies. Are air dance takes place
no thoughts of attaining to the they put into the fighting line? night, and illuminations of Preridency over entored the head Or are they restored to their re- the beach and surrounds will latives again once they have be one of the features. The band of the youthful Warren Harding completed their transport work? of the King's Regiment will again a Chinese who is being "held in when he played about the Ohio In any event, the whole business provide the music. Tickets may goal pending trial." Looks like a farm where he was born, or later, looks bad, and the methode be obtained from the Hon. Secre- case for a referee.
followed appear to us to be the tary, or at either Blake Pier very opposite of " constitutional." or the beach pier to-night. Gun Running.
when he worked as a linotype] operator in a newspaper office, following a hard struggle to get
through college, whore ability We do not know on what, had triumphed over lack of grounds Mr. J. R. Wood declined
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The N. C. Daily News refers to
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recognisable. to agree to the suggestion by the there is one law for Europeans wealth. Eventually be purchased police that the gun running case and another for Chinese is bad.
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An optimist is a Hongkong man trying to recover an umbrella by advertising...
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"Hongkong enjoyed its first public broadcasting entertain- ment,"
says the South China
people who only enjoy themselves at the cinema when the picture. makes them weep.
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Fashion Note: Ruffled skirts But not nearly so much as that caused by ruffled temper in the morning.
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The way some of our bathing *beauties keep out of the water you'd think there were no such things as sales in Hongkong.
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They broadcasted "The Lost Chord" at the Volunteer Head- quarters on Thursday. It seemed more like a lost opportunity,
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From the way there little Criminal Sessions if the evidence knows better than a Chinese the rate, we are quite prepared to paragraphy are appearing in the
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newapaper men. After that his justified the step. To our seriousness of the crime he com.believe that the lamb we had local press, it would look as if our rise was fairly rapid, as political way of thinking, all such cases, mits by indulging in gun running, for tin yesterday must have been Bull had got loose.. representative, lieutenanant gov. where there is a prima facicchargo and we have not the smallest something cles in a past life.
Saye a Daily Press poster: ernor and Senator. It may be that to answer, should come before degree of sympathy for any
the Supreme Court Judges. Some European or American who, for Thursday's lost announced that "Hongkong Labour Troubles in the power of the Press was partly of the Chinese coace are com-the sake of dollars, will place his "the .. Soang Bee, originally 2210.” Up-to-date at last 1 responsible for these achieve. initted for trial-we want to see own nationgle in jeopardy. If a announced to be due hore on
0 this proceduro followed in overy Chinese gets two years for parti Friday with the mails from Lon-
You radio broadcaster may have TDmonts, but it was the capabilities case, whether Europeans are in cipating in the arms traffic, adon of July 5, is now expected to, had 200 watts et bie disposal, but,
of the man that in
the first valved or not. Anything which European should get more for arrive by noon to-morrow." Looks for all that, we seriously question place secured him his position may give the appearance that bringing the arme here.
As if she will make it after all, whether he knew what's what.
LANE. CRAWFORD LT